Woman claims ex-deputy stole $8K

The alleged victim of a kidnapping and rape by a Pueblo County sheriff’s ex-deputy told a jury Tuesday that she broke up with him once before after he stole money from her.

The woman claimed Randall Scott Alire, 43, stole $8,000 in cash from her closet while she was away from her Beulah home.

The Pueblo Chieftain , by policy, does not name victims or alleged victims of sexual assault.

Alire is charged with kidnapping and sexual assault for an Oct. 1, 2012, incident in which he is accused of holding the woman captive for nearly seven hours and raping her during that time period.

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Alire’s defense attorney Karl Tameler has argued that the sex was consensual and that no kidnapping occurred; that it, instead, was a fabrication by the alleged victim who was looking for a way to sever Alire’s ties with her family.

Some of Tameler’s assertions have been that the two had broken up and rekindled their relationship before and that the woman continued to maintain contact with Alire after she claimed to have broken up with him in early September 2012.

Tameler was questioning the woman about an exchange of text messages over items Alire wanted returned to him in which she took a threatening tone and wrote that if he didn’t leave her alone she would go to his employer about their previous breakup.

Tameler tried to keep the reason for that breakup from the jury, but District Judge Deborah Eyler ruled he had opened the door with his line of questioning.

The woman, under redirect examination by Deputy District Attorney Robert Toole, then described the theft.

She said she found out the money was missing in spring 2011.

By that December, she became certain Alire was responsible and confronted him with it, claiming she had evidence to prove it.

She did not, but Alire promised to pay her back, she said.

The woman said Alire eventually did pay back the money.

Tameler also focused on the woman’s description of his client to others, suggesting that she described Alire to a number of people as “a perfect man,” except for his lack of money.

The woman denied making that characterization, but said Alire constantly had problems with money.

“Most high schoolers would have had more money,” she said.

Tameler also suggested that the woman’s new boyfriend, an investment banker, solved that problem.

The woman denied that accusation as well, saying that relationship began as a business relationship and blossomed from there.

The jury also heard about DNA testing results on a number of items taken from the homes of both the woman and Alire and from samples taken from their bodies.

Collin Knaub, DNA analyst for the Colorado Bureau of Investigation, testified that Alire’s semen was found on samples taken from the woman’s vagina.

He also said that saliva and Alire’s DNA was found on the barrel of his gun.

The woman testified that at one point toward the end of her captivity, Alire became suicidal.

Under cross-examination by Tameler, Knaub admitted that it was possible Alire’s DNA came from another time he handled the weapon and that the enzyme detected in the test for saliva could have had other sources.